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While I agree with this, football and boxing isn't an apples to apples comparison. Boxing declined because people found sports that were more entertaining (mainly football), not major safety issues.

Because inner city kids just looking for a way out make up 90% of everyone who plays football at the college and NFL levels.

That one was terrible, but they definitely evened out a few minutes later. Carter got absolutely hosed on his fifth foul, too.

1. I'd be willing to bet that there are a lot more cases that went undiagnosed because no one thought to look under the hood. Mike Webster was not the first person to suffer from this disease. 2. Millions of people have survived cancer. Does that mean that cancer doesn't kill people?

The risks were hardly clearly 16 years ago when Sash first put on the pads, and it wasn't much clearer during his career at Iowa. Concussions were something you walked off, or maybe you missed the rest of the game and came back ready for practice on Monday. You came in knowing you might break...

That argument doesn't fly. There's a world of difference between saying that a person can't walk up to their boss and call him an ******* without expecting consequences, and telling college students they can't publicly support a presidential candidate without facing consequences.

Like it said in the article, there's danger in driving a car if you get in a collision. But if you don't do that, you're fine. But the constant violence IS football. You can't play the game without taking those hits, whereas it's entirely possible to go your entire life behind the wheel and...

One of the symptoms he was suffering as a result of CTE was an inability to focus. I can't imagine why he'd get a prescription for adderall.

I'm definitely not worried. Lose by 6 against a top 10 team on the road and your two best players go 7-25 from the floor? If anything, that's got me excited for the stretch run. Nobody in the Big Ten, home or away, is going to beat this team when Uthoff and/or Jok are clicking.

This. I think that within two generations, football will be will be seen in a very similar light as boxing is today.

Sure, but that's not what I was arguing. The difference between 3 and 4 is negligible. But the difference between 3/4 and unranked is enormous in the eyes of recruits, so to say rankings are meaningless in the big picture is pretty shortsighted.

That really depends on what you define as the bigger picture. Does it mean anything in terms of what this team will do the next time they step on the floor? No. Does it guarantee anything going forward on the floor? No. But does this kind of exposure do wonders to help recruiting for beyond this...

You are suspended from the board until you take at least 47 showers.

This guy called it. Forbes is the most important player for MSU's success, IMO. They won games without Valentine when Forbes was hitting shots (23ppg in the three wins without Valentine), but they don't look good at all if he isn't scoring, whether Valentine is there or not (5ppg in Sparty's...

I would definitely have Cole on the team. He wasn't a star, but he was a solid player and his leadership skills were outstanding. That's definitely something he could bring to a reserve role that would have a lot of value.

They're right there. Trimble and Stone and Shields/White are the only others really in the discussion right now.

They haven't looked good since Valentine got hurt and seem to be struggling to reintegrate him. But if you could seriously watch that team before his injury and say they didn't pass the eye test, then you're wasting your time watching basketball because you clearly can't see it very well.

I know, but I feel like one year isn't long enough and 3 years would get next to zero response.

The ONLY way I would bring moving the students closer to the floor like Duke/MSU/etc. into the discussion is if the AD offered it up as a carrot on a stick. Incentivize making noise by telling the students that, if they go hard enough over the next two years (so that at least half of the...

Haven't your heard? Kansas, Providence, and Florida are a bunch of scrubs. What a cupcake schedule.